24 September

Events that occurred on 24 September.

On Earth

• 1914 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes the poem The Voyage of Eärendel the Evening Star.
• 1977 - Oxonmoot 1977 at The Welsh Pony.
• 1978 - Oxonmoot 1978 at Oxford Town Hall.
• 1982 - Oxonmoot 1982 at the Cotswold Lodge Hotel.
• 1983 - Oxonmoot 1983 at Oxford Town Hall.
• 1988 - Oxonmoot 1988 at Oxford Town Hall.
• 1989 - Oxonmoot 1989 at Oxford Town Hall.
• 1990 - Oxonmoot 1990 at Oxford Town Hall.
• 1999 - Oxonmoot 1999 at Exeter College.
• 2000 - Oxonmoot 2000 at St Antony's College.
• 2002 - The GBA version of The Fellowship of the Ring are released in North America.
• 2010 - Oxonmoot 2010 at Lady Margaret Hall.
• 2010 - Lasse Lanta Autumn Meeting of the Austrian Tolkien Society.
• 2011 - Oxonmoot 2011 at Lady Margaret Hall.
• 2017 - Oxonmoot 2017 at St Antony's College.

In Arda

• T.A. 3018:
  • From midnight, Bag End legally passes to the ownership of the Sackville-Baggins Family.
  • Frodo, Sam and Pippin have breakfast, and after 10 they continue their walk along the road, up and down the slopes of the Green Hill Country until the top of a steep bank. They stop for lunch.
  • Gandalf crosses the Isen.
  • Khamûl rides on the Stock Road and senses the One Ring; uncertain because of the bright daylight, he leaves and waits until the night.
  • The hobbits stop to hide from the Black Rider. They continue walking parallel to the road. They join the road around sunset.
  • They hide in a tree-stump and have a light meal and rest, and resume by nightfall.
  • Gildor Inglorion and his companions return from pilgrimage to the palantír of the Tower Hills to Rivendell.
  • Khamûl senses the ring again and pursues Frodo.
  • Frodo, Sam and Pippin encounter the Nazgûl near Woody End; he flees because of the approaching Elves' chanting. The Hobbits camp with the Elves.
  • Boromir travels towards Rivendell to ask for counsel.